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GOP might be happy to let Democrats deal with post-Bush mess
Baltimore Sun ^ | May 23, 2007 | Victor Kamber

Posted on 05/23/2007 7:50:57 AM PDT by rface

Their thinking: Let the Democrats win in 2008. Let them inherit the huge debt, the war and all the problems of eight years of George W. Bush. Let the conservatives, they reason, take this opportunity to rebuild and, by 2012, come roaring back to the White House. If Mr. Goldwater's defeat set conservatives back two decades, think about the Democrats in 2008 and their two talented front-runners, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Can you imagine a worse time for the first female president or the first black president - succeeding a man who entered the Oval Office with surpluses as far as the eye could see and leaves it treading water?.....

Why are so many Democrats feeling uneasy about the 2008 elections? Every indication is they're going to win big. Republicans in Congress are sure doing their part to keep Democratic hopes high. Hardly a day passes without the GOP leadership blocking some initiative people desperately want - such as ending the hated Iraq war or refusing to allow the government to negotiate lower drug prices.

Quietly, a group of conservative Republicans who have begun meeting believe that a loss in 2008 might be the best thing that could happen to their movement. They certainly aren't happy with any of the front-runners. To accept any of them would mean a huge compromise - and moreover, these Republicans believe, that compromise candidate would still probably lose the election.

Meanwhile, what's bugging Democrats is the inconvenient truth that the next president will inherit a federal government resembling the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...


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1 posted on 05/23/2007 7:51:01 AM PDT by rface
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this strategy would be a big mistake.


2 posted on 05/23/2007 7:51:25 AM PDT by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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Utter crap.


3 posted on 05/23/2007 7:51:42 AM PDT by magoo70804
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Just crafting their excuses early. Unfortunately for them, they have to win an election first.


4 posted on 05/23/2007 7:52:48 AM PDT by rhombus
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No mention of how we’re still trying to undo Clinton’s damage.


5 posted on 05/23/2007 7:53:08 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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If the Democrats do lose, we all know it will be because the election was "stolen" from them.
6 posted on 05/23/2007 7:54:00 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder." --Frederic Bastiat)
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Not to mention that well over half the article is a flat-out lie. Yes, Bush and the Congress conspired to spend us back into a deficit, but Algore would’ve done any better? Besides, the deficit is closing due to higher tax revenues and the economy, despite the wailing of the MSM’s Greek chorus, is VERY strong.

}:-)4


7 posted on 05/23/2007 7:54:02 AM PDT by Moose4 (Deport 'em. I don't need landscaping and I'll pay more for lettuce.)
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It will be even harder to clean up the mess Rats make


8 posted on 05/23/2007 7:54:30 AM PDT by mjp (Live & let live. I don't want to live in Mexico, Marxico, or Muslimico. Statism & high taxes suck.)
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To: rface

I wonder who transcribed this article from the original crayon.


9 posted on 05/23/2007 7:54:42 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Who wants to bet that this Victor Camber is a democrat? This is a reverse psychology ploy, and it isn’t even subtle.


10 posted on 05/23/2007 7:54:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Fred Thompson/John Bolton 2008)
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He’s a bigtime RAT. I’ll believe it when people I trust confirm it.


11 posted on 05/23/2007 7:54:57 AM PDT by freespirited
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Who wants to bet that this Victor Camber is a democrat?

No need to guess. He's a well-known RAT consultant.

12 posted on 05/23/2007 7:56:01 AM PDT by freespirited
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Hardly a day passes without the GOP leadership blocking some initiative people desperately want - such as ending the hated Iraq war or refusing to allow the government to negotiate lower drug prices.

Bravo Sierra

Stopped reading right here. The people don't desperately want to end the "hated Iraq war" - at least not via surrender the way the dems do. My feeling is that people just want to see real progress towards winning the damn thing. As for allowing the government to negotiate lower drug....are you freaking kidding me?

13 posted on 05/23/2007 7:58:21 AM PDT by frankiep (Beer - the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems)
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Victor Kamber is a moron’s MORON. What utter claptrap!


14 posted on 05/23/2007 7:58:31 AM PDT by noname07718
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Their thinking: Let the Democrats win in 2008.

They do seem to be going full-bore on that course, don't they?

They're not called 'The Stupid Party' for nothing.

15 posted on 05/23/2007 7:58:42 AM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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LOL!!!


16 posted on 05/23/2007 7:59:03 AM PDT by frankiep (Beer - the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems)
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So privately the GOP is saying, let’s win the presidency by losing? If that’s true then they must be drinking from the Democrat’s kool-aid well.


17 posted on 05/23/2007 7:59:55 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (Giving illegal aliens a Z-Visa is like giving the car thief ownership to the vehicle he stole.)
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Let the Democrats win in 2008.

They've got to be kidding.

Surrender and bow to Allah? Is that their 2008 campaign slogan? Death to the infidel?

18 posted on 05/23/2007 8:02:52 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s a dimrat alright
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=DC&last=Kamber&first=Victor


19 posted on 05/23/2007 8:03:40 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (The greatest danger to our troops is the Congress of the United States.)
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To: rface

Total Blarney.


20 posted on 05/23/2007 8:04:27 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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